Manual Removal Instructions for Resycled/boot.com Virus
Recently my office system was infected by c:\resycled boot.com and scheduled scan produced its presence though weird trend micro in our office was just detecting it but was not taking any action and Trend micro showed this infection every week for three weeks without removing it and I thought of manually removing it.
I learnt that this is a worm that actually spreads through USB drives and will be copied automatically when connected to infected machine and creates autorun.inf in host machine and sometimes throws “resycled/boot.com is not a valid Win32 application” message.
Aliases: WORM_Generic.DMS, Trojan Horse SHeur.CODS
Risk Factor: LOW Level
Affected OS: Windows Operating Systems
Symptoms:
1. Appears a message “resycled/boot.com is not a valid Win32 application”
2. Presence of autorun.inf files on root of drive
How did I removed it? I therefore resorted to a manual removal, following the instructions below:
1. Download and install MBAM from malwarebytes.org
2. At the end of the setup don’t forget to Update the application and Launch upon finish
3. Deep scan your computer when asked
4. Once the Scan is finished check all the entries that you feel as infection and uncheck if you think it is legitimate
5. Click on the button "Remove Selected" and restart your computer when asked
Now your computer should be free of most of the malware and spywares MBAM is not the solution only for resycled/boot.com worm it can fix most of the common malwares that is hooked into your system i used it to remove different kind of infections on my system and between dont forget to get a good antivirus such as Kaspersky or nod32 to prevent further infection.
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